A course sold on its own is a refund waiting to happen. Sold inside a community, the students who would have stalled at lesson three have somewhere to ask why.
Everything between the sale and the certificate
Completion is the metric that decides whether they buy the next one.
The stuck student has somewhere to go
Questions land in the feed instead of your inbox, and the answer stays there for the next cohort. The same question stops being asked twice.
Threaded discussion, one level deep — long threads stay readable
Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link and it embeds, so students can point at the exact clip
Poll the cohort on what to cover next, with votes hidden until you reveal them
Build modules and lessons, then move anything anywhere once you've seen where people actually stall. The order isn't a decision you have to get right on day one.
Drag handles on modules and on lessons within them
Rich-text lessons with images, code blocks and downloadable resources
Draft until you publish — nobody sees a half-finished outline